YouTube co-founder predicts ‘decline’ of the platform

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787080/youtube-dislikes-criticism-cofounder-jawed-karim-first-video-description-zoo

by ohiovr • 5 years ago

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makeavish• 5 years ago

I wish that a good YouTube competetor probes up and take away all famous creators. I just want to avoid watching spam and bad tutorial videos.

pixl97• 5 years ago

So what advertising network is going to run it?

musicale2• 5 years ago

Amazon or Discord presumably.

ezoe• 5 years ago

Any generic UGC video hosting sites that is the size of YouTube, will be ended up like YouTube.

charlieyu1• 5 years ago

If only there is a competitor that allows real time comments like Niconico

musicale2• 5 years ago

There was Microsoft's Mixer but it failed.

I agree there should be something like it. Maybe from Amazon.

fortran77• 5 years ago

Perhaps Patreon can find a niche here by letting people sponsor alternative hosting (on Patreon) for the content they want to support.

wodenokoto2• 5 years ago

A lot of the creators I follow seems to be on Nebula. It's basically a coop competitor to Youtube Premium (at least it is my understanding that all creators on nebula owns a share or a stake).

https://nebula.app/

glouwbug• 5 years ago

Remember youtube in like 2012? We'd just make stupid videos for fun. It wasn't about money

copperx• 5 years ago

Do you mean 2005?

UncleMeat• 5 years ago

And now instead of Chocolate Rain we have gazillions of hours of documentary-quality educational material produced by reasonably well funded teams of people. Good comes with the bad.

The silly videos were going to move to TikTok anyway.

jrm4• 5 years ago

We need widespread adoption of something like Peertube yesterday.

mwachs• 5 years ago

This guy is heated.

throwawaysea2• 5 years ago

YouTube and other platforms are so aggressive in their moderation/censorship that what we really need to succeed them is something decentralized, rather than a transition to a different centralized master.

Some alternatives: https://blockonomi.com/youtube-alternative/

Peertube in particular has a friendly explanation on what it is: https://joinpeertube.org/#what-is-peertube

DoItToMe813• 5 years ago

I love Peertube, but I'm always concerned to see just how small the team behind it is. I'm hoping LBRY gets more adoption, just in case Peertube gets knocked off for good.

throwawaysea2• 5 years ago

I am not sure I entirely understand LBRY and its relation to Odysee. I see an explanation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY but it feels confusing for a newbie.

DoItToMe813• 5 years ago

I sincerely doubt it. How many tens of "universally disliked changes" have Google made over the last fifteen years? In the end, everybody sucks them up, because outside of a few very specialized use cases, there is no alternative.

wodenokoto2• 5 years ago

I don't think the platform will decline. I do think a lot of critics don't realize what youtube considers itself. It's not a video hosting platform. It's a Netflix and Cable TV competitor. It's Via Play - a collection of channels and programs.

YouTube doesn't consider itself the home of your homevideos. It's the home of "content creators" - indie TV programs. The whole "upload your video from your Zoo trip" is just their gateway for getting potential creators feet wet.

YouTube co-founder predicts ‘decline’ of the platform

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